Finland has an app that reveals shopping’s true carbon footprint

The app combines data from credit cards and banks with purchase data from retailers to provide real-time calculations of how a given product affects the climate. — AFP

Shoppers will soon be able to work out the true carbon footprint of their purchases thanks to an app from one of the most digitally savvy nations in the world.

Unlike other carbon-footprint calculators already on the market, the application developed by Enfuce Financial Services Oy, a Finnish payment services provider, does not rely on users inputting the data manually. Instead, it combines data from credit cards and banks with purchase data from retailers to provide real-time calculations of how a given product affects the climate.